The first thing I do upon returning home from a trip outside is to wash my feet and sandals. Get rid of the dust. Wet feet also cools you down.
People also take off their shoes or sandals before they enter a home they are visiting. I was told they do that in Canada too. Good way to keep your floor and carpet clean. In India footwear is shed before entering a religious building as a mark of reverence. In my church they do that.
Come into the presence of God barefoot - leave the grime of the world outside.
Jesus the Servant King and my Elder Brother is ready to wash my feet.
I need to have my feet washed everyday.
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10;22 (BIBLE)
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"Look at your feet. They’re wet, grace soaked. Jesus has washed the grimiest parts of your life."- Max Lucado
People also take off their shoes or sandals before they enter a home they are visiting. I was told they do that in Canada too. Good way to keep your floor and carpet clean. In India footwear is shed before entering a religious building as a mark of reverence. In my church they do that.
Come into the presence of God barefoot - leave the grime of the world outside.
Jesus the Servant King and my Elder Brother is ready to wash my feet.
I need to have my feet washed everyday.
22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10;22 (BIBLE)
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"Look at your feet. They’re wet, grace soaked. Jesus has washed the grimiest parts of your life."- Max Lucado
4 Fertilize my soul:
Respect to other people is essential. When I was in Bosnia, they told me, that in Orthodox Church women and men are in different parts of church - men on the right site, women on the left. I was staying on the left site, as they asked me.
its been a long time since I participated in a foot washing....
I think the church here in the states should have more feet washing services as it was in the old days...so much of the old has been done away with here,and replaced by more modern practices. I have participated in foot washing services in the past,it was a very humbling experience,and very evident the Holy Spirit was present....it is a command of our Lord..you should do unto one another as I have done unto you. Blessings dear Amrita
Quite a few years ago. When I was maybe 16 or so. My Dad did this with the family at dinner one night. I frankly at the time Did Not Like it! For my Dad to abase himself in such a way before Me? Some unwashed child? No! But he did it and after a bit I let him as he is my Dad.
Now, I guess I understand it better. In some ways it is the sign of a master serving his servants. Just like Christ served and does serve us although we are totally undeserving of it! Yet that is what our God does to teach us about the whole master/servant relationship.
We the undeserving are reminded of who we are by such an action.
In humbling himself, Christ humbles us.
You know, Totally aside from all God does and has done and will do for me. I just LOVE the way his mind works! He has also been called The Great Architect.
Personally I think we should add The Great Physiologist! To the list.
NO one knows us better, understands our fears or wants or desires more than he does.
Thank you my Father for walking with me this day.
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